This is from an E-Mail I received. It was presented
as written by Dr Vakin but upon investigating its
veracity I found that it is an excerpt from an
article by Ali Sina. That being said, I do in fact believe
that it is an accurate portrayal of our president.
Dr.Vaknin States “I must confess I was impressed by
Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At
first I was excited to see a black candidate. He
looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a
wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon,
not just because of his shallowness but also because there
was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was
unsettling. His posture and his body language were
louder than his empty words. Obama’s speeches are
unlike any political speech we have heard in
American history. Never a politician in this land had
such quasi “religious” impact on so many
people.
The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero
accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation
alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a
genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important
subjects.”
Barack Obama is a narcissist.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love
believes
“Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.”
Vaknin is a world
authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and
describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other
person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens.
Vaknin says that Obama’s language, posture and
demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest
friends suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or
he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of
themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of
People’s Temple , the man who led over 900 of
his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even
murder their own children was also a narcissist. David
Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara,
Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a
few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men
had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created
a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing
speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with
enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for
life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon,
but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom.
When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you
don’t know it
until it is too late. One determining factor in the
development of NPD is childhood abuse. “Obama’s
early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic
and mentally bruising dislocations,”says Vaknin.
“Mixed-race marriages were even less common then.
His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant
(two years old). Obama saw his father only once
again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother
re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a
foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be
raised by a step- father. At the age of ten, he was
whisked off to live with his maternal
(white)grandparents. He saw his mother
only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished
from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in
1995.”
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of
pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing
personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed
by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay
in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight
to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world
around himself and reduces others in his own inverted
image. He creates a cult of personality. His
admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no
interest in things that do not help them to reach their
personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone
and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to
them and they do not want to waste their precious time on
trivialities.. Anything that does not help them is beneath
them and do not deserve their attention.
If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in
one way or another, he has no interest in it. The
“present” vote is a safe vote. No one can
criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are
unworthy by their very nature because they are not about
him.
Obama’s election as the first black president of the
Harvard Law
Review led to a contract and advance to write a book
about race relations. The University of Chicago Law
School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the
end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography!
Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race
relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not
resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled
the book Dreams from My Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own
autobiography
when he was still a nobody. So did Stalin. For a
narcissist no
subject is as important as his own self. Why would he
waste his precious time and genius writing about
insignificant things when he can write about such an august
being as himself?
Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the
norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from
Obama’s lack of interest in his own brother who lives
on only one dollar per month. A man who lives in luxury,
who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii , and who has
raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign
(something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the
plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother
cannot be used for his ascent to power. A
narcissist cares for no one but himself.
This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at
stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man
bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot
distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the
free world?
I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not
alarmed.
Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to
others….
They are simply self serving and selfish. Obama evidences
symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different
from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a
Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy
are intertwined.
This is a mental health issue, not just a character
flaw.
Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look
normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.
Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama.
But this man could put an end to their party. The
great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for
Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him
is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple.
The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the
disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment
among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up
their support of their man. Cultic mentality is
pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads
deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of
racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites. The
white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent
and they will receive widespread support. I predict
that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase
to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960’s..
Obama will set the clock back decades… America is the
bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the
strength of America , and its weakness translates into the
triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It is
no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the
Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo
terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are
so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White
House.
America is on the verge of destruction. There is no
insanity
greater than electing a pathological narcissist as
president.
